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Having a thorough understanding of SEO basics, and how to improve it further for eCommerce stores is how your products can stand out in search, and even show your products in places where customers are ready to buy.

This is your guide to better results.

SEO Basics

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the strategy of settings and configurations that help Google analyze a website, and present it prominently in related queries.

With a strong foundation in place, you will be ready to make eCommerce specific optimizations.

Three Types of Search Engine Optimization

There are three main ‘types’ of search engine optimization. Each one has their own steps to take. The types are technical SEO, on-page SEO, and off-page SEO.

We will introduce them in that order, as you will make some early decisions in the same order.

Technical SEO

Technical SEO refers to the administrative side of the website that helps inform Google it can be trusted and shown to customers looking for somewhere to shop. 

• Keyword-related domain
• Fast loading
• SSL certificate
• Clear navigational layout
• Mobile friendly

On-page SEO

On-page SEO is the side of optimizations that most think of when they hear “SEO”. These aspects are a little more obvious:

• Product titles
• Descriptions
• Alt Text on images
• Reviews
• Related products

Off-page SEO

Off-page SEO refers to the actions taken outside of your domain that inform search engines that your page is a valuable resource. Off-page SEO can take many forms:

• Social media engagement
• Links from other websites
• Name recognition and brand awareness

When other websites, domains, and sources point to your products as a valuable item – the more valuable it becomes in Google’s eyes as well.

New to SEO? Here’s How to ‘Get on Google’

If you are completely new to SEO, there is a great resource from Google themselves on how to ‘Get on Google’.

When your store is set up, your navigation is clear, and you have your products listed, Google should automatically ‘crawl’ it and register it among the rest of the results.

To skip the wait, you can submit your site directly via Google Search Console by creating an ‘XML Sitemap’. There are many plugins, such as Yoast or SEOPress that can generate one for you. A basic XML Sitemap is available if you visit ‘https://www.yoursite.com/wp-sitemap.xml’

Where Will Your Products Show?

After Google indexes your store, your products and prices, it will insert them into places where searchers are most likely to purchase. 

• Google Search
• Google Images
• Google Shopping
• Business Profile
• Google Lens
• Google Maps – if you have a physical location

Google My Business

For stores with a physical location claiming and configuring your business profile on Google is crucial. This helps your store show up in local searches, map searches, assistant searches.

Google Merchant Account

The Google Shopping tab is a remarkably active channel for eCommerce. To have your products listed in this tab, you need to sign up for a Google Merchant Center account.

A WooCommerce SEO Checklist

Here is a starting checklist for everything you can easily do to improve your store’s SEO optimization:

• Mobile friendly theme
• SSL Certificate installed
• Add alt tags to all images
• Write helpful, keyword-based product titles and descriptions
• Use readable, keyword-based URL structure (Permalinks)
• Submit an XML sitemap to Google Search Console

Advanced SEO for WooCommerce

Once you’re set up with the fundamentals, you can start employing more advanced tactics and really fine tuning your relationship with search engines. Exploring SEO plugins, advanced formatting tips, and ongoing additions like blog posts that can bolster your status even more.

Keyword Research

Tools like Ahrefs and Ubersuggest are fantastic to do some preliminary keyword research. This is helpful when posting products, and when developing new products.

Different Types of Media

Incorporating video from YouTube, TikTok or other platforms is great for standing out with media snippets.

The variation in media also helps Google place your results in more places within video search and the YouTube platform itself.

SEO Plugins for WooCommerce

There are many plugins to help fine tune the seemingly infinite SEO dials. Here’s a few to check out first:

• Rank Math
• YoastSEO
• All in One SEO Pack
• Squirrly SEO
• WP Meta SEO
• MonsterInsights
• WP Rocket

Choose one that you like the most, and it will help keep down the number of plugins you have installed on top of each other.

Structured Data (Schema) for Reviews, Availability and Pricing

With all of the optimizations you have done up to this point, you’ve made your store recognizable and noticed by search engines. Schema Markup is how you start jumping out and getting noticed by customers directly.

Don’t be intimidated by the technical sounding term – Schema Markup is just a type of code added to your pages to provide specific details directly on the search results page.

For example, you can highlight prices, availability, featured reviews, and your store’s location right within the search result.

Any of the SEO Plugins you chose will have options to fill these out. In general, you want your prices to be visible, stock-levels accurate, and encourage reviews or ratings as often as possible.

Create a Blog for your WooCommerce Store

A blog is a powerful resource for your customers, and even more powerful for SEO optimization. With a blog, you can:

• Target long-tail keywords
• Build a catalog of helpful customer support resources
• Create a line of communication with your customers

Each published blog post is a new opportunity to rank on Google for different inquiries. Keeping up with a blog takes commitment, but can easily become the cornerstone of your SEO strategy.

SEO for WooCommerce is about Commitment and Clarity

SEO takes time, but is undeniably one of the best ways to grow a WooCommerce store. You could spend thousands on consultants, hours seeking the latest SEO hack, but you don’t have to. WooCommerce SEO isn’t about hacks and expertise. It’s about commitment and clarity. 

• Fill out your product fields fully every time
• Use clear alt text and product descriptions

Focus on making the experience the best it can be for your customer, and don’t cut corners.

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With access to entirely new customers and markets, the opportunities to scale and grow seem endless. Representing your business with a beautiful, easy to use online storefront is easy thanks to WooCommerce. 

Follow this guide and you should be off on a whole new chapter in your business.

What is WooCommerce?

Let’s start with the basics.

WooCommerce is a free plugin that gives eCommerce features to any WordPress website. A WooCommerce store can sell physical and virtual products, accept payments, arrange shipping, and track orders.

Currently, there are over 4 million online stores running on WooCommerce, and the platform continues to grow in popularity and versatility.

Requirements for WooCommerce

If you are new to having your own website, think of it like building blocks for now. WooCommerce builds on top of WordPress, which builds on top of your hosting plan, which displays the finished set on your domain name. 

So to get started you will need:

• A domain name (www.yoursite.com)
• A web hosting provider
  • SSL certificate installed
  • WordPress installed

Oh, and you’ll need products to sell. Start there if you haven’t already.

Step by Step: Launching Your WooCommerce Store

Purchase a Domain Name and Hosting Plan

Choose the perfect domain, and select a hosting provider that offers optimized options for WooCommerce.

Here are the most popular hosting options for WordPress:

• Bluehost
• SiteGround
• WP Engine
• Hostinger

Install WordPress on Your New Domain

Most hosting providers offer WordPress installs through “one-click install” wizards. Follow these prompts from your host and note your WordPress admin credentials somewhere safe.

If you need to install WordPress directly, you can download it from www.WordPress.org.

Install the WooCommerce Plugin

With a fresh WordPress install, login to the “wp-admin” dashboard with your credentials and navigate to the “plugins” section.

The admin dashboard is typically found at www.yoursite.com/wp-admin

• Go to Plugins > Add New 
• Search for WooCommerce
• Click Install Now
• Click Activate

Configuring WooCommerce

WooCommerce has an easy to follow onboarding wizard that will walk you through setting up your store’s address, currency, and types of products (physical, digital, variable, simple, etc.)

Choose a WooCommerce Friendly Theme

• Go to Appearance > Themes
• Click Add New

Search for a design you like that is labeled to work with WooCommerce. Some popular free choices are:

• Astra
• Storefront
• Kiosko

Add Your Products

It’s time to add the actual products you will be selling.

• Go to Products > Add New

Every product needs to be set with:

• Product Title
• Detailed Description
• High Quality Images
• Price
• Inventory Levels

Use categories for organization, and tags for extra groupings. 

(Beware: Category names and product tags are visible to customers on some themes)

Set Up Payment Gateways

When accepting payment online, you don’t actually interface with a customer’s credit card directly. It gets passed through a “payment gateway” instead.

WooCommerce supports:

• Stripe

• PayPal
• Square
• Apple Pay / Google Pay

Recently, WooCommerce has released their own payment gateway “WooPayments” to offer this service directly.

Configure Shipping and Taxes

Understand the logistics of your offline shipping process and where you will be able to ship to and the costs you incur. Then define the shipping zones, rates and methods for shipping accordingly in WooCommerce.

In WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping

• Set shipping zones (regions and countries)
• Assign shipping methods and rates

Determine if you will be charging sales tax, and which items that will apply to. Many plugins, like WooCommerce Tax are very helpful for these settings.

Test, Test, Test!

Before telling a single customer about the website, you should spend considerable time testing the checkout experience and ensuring it is as smooth as expected. You also want to be familiar with the checkout side of the process to offer better support when that time comes.

Add a product to your cart, checkout using a test payment method

• Go to Payments > Settings
• Enable Test Mode
• Use the test card numbers provided to test different scenarios

Check for unexpected errors, confirm that emails are sent when they should be, shipping rates are as expected, order processing makes sense, and make sure you feel confident in fulfilling a real order. Then you’re ready to go live.

Managing Your WooCommerce Store

Managing a WooCommerce store is a big undertaking, but there are several plugins and tools to help optimize the day to day of it all:

• WooCommerce Smart Manager for bulk editing
• ShipStation for managing shipments
• MailPoet for newsletters and marketing
• Google Analytics for WooCommerce for reports and analytics

Fulfilling Your First Orders

As your first orders begin to roll in, define and document your process. Earmark the potential places for automations and optimizations, and most importantly make your customers happy.

Here are questions you should ask yourself as you begin:

• Where will inventory be stored?
• How often will you ship?  (daily, weekly, etc.)
• What repetitive steps can be automated first?

Always prioritize your customer satisfaction above automations.

Tips Before You Launch

A few final tips before you open your digital doors to the world:

• Use high quality product images
  • Compress the files to maintain loading times.
  • Use descriptive “alt tags” on every image.
• Test your site on Mobile and Desktop
• Make regular backups, especially before making big changes.

Launching your online store with WooCommerce doesn’t have to be overwhelming or overly expensive. Start small, scale at your pace and explore the expanding community of storefronts, business owners, extension developers, and customers that WooCommerce has.

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In this guide, I’ll show you how to organize files in the WordPress media library with folders.

You are one of the WordPress users that produce a staggering 70 million new posts every month.

Like you, many website owners, especially those who frequently publish content, get lost in the default WordPress Media library.

With no way to organize files, it is daunting to sift through thousands of images to find one.

In this guide, we’ll take the headache away and help you organize your files in WordPress media library folders with Filebird.

What is FileBird – WordPress Media Library Folders Plugin?

Filebird is a premium WordPress media library plugin built by elite folks at Ninja Team.

For a onetime fee of $25, you benefit from these features of FileBird.

1. With FileBird, you get to organize your media library in folders. You can use as many folders as you like and manage all file types – documents, spreadsheets, images, videos – as long as it is in the WordPress media library.
2. The interface is very user friendly; there’s honestly a zero learning curve to organizing your WordPress media library folders.
3. With its smart sidebar and easy navigation, you can find any file in your WordPress media library by looking in the right folders.

Filled with raving reviews from actual, verified users, FileBird is the most sold WordPress media Library folders and file manager plugin. Its Envato page at the time of writing shows 9,718 sales – meaning FileBird powers 9,718 WordPress websites.

You can purchase FileBird from the Envato Market place.

And yes, your purchase is backed by a 100% money-back guarantee if anything goes wrong.

We took it for a test run on real-world eCommerce computer stop, a live candidate for the magic of FileBird, and to be honest; you will not need the money-back guarantee.

FileBird, by far, is the most straightforward plugin we’ve tried – explore our rich blog, and you will know that we’ve tried hundreds of plugins.

We are invested in finding the best tools and resources to help your WordPress website.

So, let’s go ahead and show you how to organize your WordPress media library folders

Step by Step: How to Organize your WordPress Files with FileBird?

1. Backup Your Website

It is good practice to backup your website every time you install plugins.

Use WPvivid backup is a free WordPress backup and restore plugin. It will automatically backup your whole website before installing a plugin.

2. Install Filebird and Activate

First, download the Filebird files from your Themeforest/Envato account.

Second, log in to your WordPress administration area.

Under Plugins, click Add New.

On top of the page you are sent to, look on the top, you should see Upload Plugin.

Now, I want you to click, Browse, select the Filebird file you downloaded from Themeforest.

You should now see the filebird.version.zip next to the Browse button.

If all is good, click Install Now.

WordPress will do its thing, then redirect you to a screen like one below, now click Activate Plugin.

Filebird is an easy to use WordPress file manager. Once installed, there’s nothing much to do.

No complicated settings to configures; matter of fact, you don’t need to go tothe settings page – unless if you want to organize each user on your WordPress site to have their own folders.

For most users, once installed, jump right in, you can go ahead to organize the media files in your WordPress site.

3. Organize Files in the WordPress Media Library with Folders

After installing and activating Filebird, on the left menu, go to Media and then to Library

You should see a new section on the left of the Media Library – Folders

Click New Folder to create a folder

Give your folder a name and then hit the Save button.

Pro tip: According to an SEO agency that manages websites for some of the largest ecommerce stores in Africa and Europe, give your folders descriptive names.  A simple act like that can quickly boost your search engine rankings as Search engines can easily crawl, index, and learn about your website content.

For example, a computer store sales Computers, under which you have Desktops, then Brands.

A good folder structure could then be Computers > Desktops > Dell > Model > Computer-name

Another easy way of going around it is name you folders based on how you catalogue your products or ideas offline – if you don’t, then the above idea may work for you.

Create subfolders in WordPress Media library with Filebird

There are two ways around this.

First is creating the subfolders directly in the folder you want to have the subfolder in.

The second way is if you are reorganizing and moving an existing folder to another folder.

We’ll look at both ways.

Go to the folder under which you desire to create the subfolder.

Click New Folder

Provide a subfolder name and then Save.

The second way is rearranging your folders.

Simply drag and drop the folder you want to move into the desired folder.

Move media items to folders in WordPress Media library with Filebird

Once you have your folder structure in place, it time to move the files to their folders.

We’ll go about this in two ways: moving one item at a time and moving multiple items.

Moving one item

Find the item you want to move, click it, then drag it into the folder you desire.

Moving multiple items

To move multiple items in bulk – click Bulk Select under Media Library.

Next, please select all the items you want to move and drag them to a folder.

That’s about it on organizing multiple media library files.

One thing, though, after you’ve dragged multiple items to a folder, make sure you click the Cancel button on top of the screen.

If you don’t, the items stay selected, not good if you are still dropping other files to other folders or subfolders.

4.  How to Search for Folder and Insert Files to Page/Post

Upon activation, you can browser files directly from page/post editor easily in the FileBird interface. This user interface displays exactly like in your media library sidebar. Therefore, you can also search for folder name in the FileBird sidebar or search for file name in the built-in search box. With this you’ll be able to find the files you need in the shortest amount of time.

Thanks to this WP dashboard file manager, all WordPress authors and editors can do their jobs quickly and productively.

5. Easy Migration

If you’re using another WordPress media folder plugin and want to move to FileBird without crafting all folders all over again, don’t worry because FileBird got you covered. This plugin provides powerful migration features so that with a few clicks you can import previously-created folders from other plugins such as Media Library Assistant, WP Media Folder by JoomUnited, Enhanced Media Library by webbistro and WordPress Media Library Folders by Max Foundry.

Conclusion

After reading through this article, managing media files in WordPress shouldn’t be a nightmare.

FileBird – WordPress Media Library Folders Plugin does the job of organizing your files in WordPress media library folders.

It will cost you $25, but it is worth every penny.

You can purchase FileBird from the Envato Market place and start organizing your files in WordPress media library folders.

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If you want to reuse an image, yes, you can search for it in the media library, but would you remember how you saved the picture last year? I doubt you would.

That’s the pain of the default WordPress media manager. Like in most cases, where WordPress is inept, there is a plugin. And in this case, WordPress Real Media Library.

We had the privilege of testing the plugin on a real-world tour and travel website that needed a better way to organize photos and files.

This is what we think about the plugin.

What is Real Media Library, and What Does it Solve?

WordPress Real Media Library is a free Media Library Folder and File Manager for WordPress. It is built by devowl.io, and you can easily install it in your WordPress site from the official plugin store.

It fixes the problem with how WordPress bundles every file you upload to the same folder. The folks at devowl.io built a plugin that organizes files in three logical ways – with folders, collections, and galleries.

Folders

What’s the use of a folder on your computer? To organize/store files in a way, you can locate them, right?

Just the way you would organize files from your latest adventures in the jungles of Africa by country or activities.So you can do the same in your website with WordPress Real Media Library.

In the folder, you can drop there any file type – jpeg, avi, pdf, png, etc.

For more organization, you can stack folders (subfolders) in the main folder.Or create Collections then add galleries to the collection. I will explain later what the difference between folders, collections and galleries is.

If you are on the free version of the plugin, you get only ten folders (includes collections and galleries).

Use them wisely or go unlimited with the boundless PRO version of Real Media Library.

Once you create your folders, simply drag and drop your files to the folders.

Collections

In the image below – files are organized – first in a folder (Photography), then into collections (wildlife) and then galleries (Lions, Snakes, etc.). A collection is a logical way to organize your galleries based on general themes that the plugin calls collections.

You can also create sub-collections inside a collection. Remember, galleries can only have images.

Galleries

For most WordPress users, images take the lion’s share of media uploads.So, it is only logical that you organize images in a way one can easily understand and retrieve. WordPress Real Media Library makes it possible using galleries.

A travel blogger can now, within the file manager, create galleries of the beauty they capture in their photography.

He can later retrieve the galleries and add them to his posts using the Real Media Library Gallery block for those using the Gutenberg editor or with a shortcode that supports the classic editor.

You’ll see in a moment how to use the block to add a gallery to your post.

In these galleries, you can also drag and drop the images to order them how you want.

Features of WordPress Real Media Library

We’ve so far looked at WordPress Real Media Library’s solution for the default WordPress media library limitations by using folders, collections, and galleries.

Now let’s run through the features of the plugin.

We’ve seen WordPress Real Media Library comes with a complete file and folder manager. With it, you can do anything you would do with folders on your local computer – create, move, rename or delete a folder.

Easily Filter and Insert Images to Your Posts

One of the nightmares every publisher has with the default WordPress media manager is finding the picture to add to content. WordPress Real Media Library takes away the nightmare.

Upload Files Directly to Your Folders, Galleries or Collections

Once you have set up your folder structure, it is easy to add files directly to the folders, galleries or collections. In the WordPress media upload dialog, choose the folder you want to send your file directly.

Add Galleries to Your Content from Your Folders

A feature that will make you love WordPress Real Media Library is the neat ability to add galleries to your post based on the folders you created in the media manager. Within the Gutenberg editor, you can automatically add images to your posts and pages. Add the Real Media Library Gallery block as you would any other Gutenberg block. For other editors, you can simply use a shortcode.

Then select a Gallery or folder from the Block pane under Gallery Settings.

Advanced Upload Management

When you upload a file, this feature shows you a little more information about your upload – including the current status, remaining time for the upload to complete, and the upload speed.

Quickly Move around Files with Drag and Drop Features

Managing and organizing files cannot get easier than this. Drag then drop the image to another folder.

Touch-Friendly

Are you working on a touch-friendly device? It’s easier to drag and drop files because WordPress Real Media Library is touch-friendly.

Custom Image Order – Only in the Pro Version of the Plugin

With WordPress Real Media Library, how you organize your files is up to you.

Do you want to place the elephant tusk next to the bird manually? You can just drag and drop them.

Do you want to organize files by date or name automatically? Ascending or Descending? Once or automatically? Then you will love WordPress Real Media Library.

In addition to these cool features. You also get this with Real Media Library:

• Create shortcuts for files
• View your images and files in a grid or as a list.
• WordPress 5.x/ Gutenberg ready
• Create shortcuts of filesthat do consume physical storage space in multiple folders.
• Order or sort folder contentsmanually by dragging and dropping or automatically by date or time.
• Rearrange foldersmanually by dragging and dropping or automatically by ascendance or descending.
• Bulk select foldersand delete multiple folders at once
• Quickly navigate to folders with quick folder search
• Translated into several languages
• Compatible with all major themes, page builders and many plugins
• Supports WordPress Multisite
• Import categories/folders from plugins like FileBird, WP Media Folder, Advanced Media Library, Media Library Wizard and more

Get more with Real Physical Media

You’ve seen the power of Real Media Library. It provides a simple solution to organize files in the bland default WordPress media library in folders that are easy to find and use as you create content.

If you upload files a lot through FTP, you will notice that you still have the default WordPress folder structure.

That’s because WordPress Real Media Library uses virtual folders to organize your files. If you deal with your physical server often – e.g. when you use FTP a lot – then you need an add-on: Real Physical Media.

Real Physical Media replicate the virtual folders created by WordPress Real Media Library in your physical storage.

That is. It will create folders on your host based on the folder names.

There are a couple of benefits to this.

1. Obviously, is that those who FTP a lot, have a logical and easy way to upload their files.
2. There is the immense value of SEO juice you can squeeze out of this way of organizing files. According to MOZ, 29.9% of Google search results are from image searches.

If you are still reading this article, I can assume one thing: Your website has a ton of images.

So why not pick this low hanging SEO fruit and drive traffic to your website? By using Real Physical Media, you get a descriptive file path for each image.

You would have a file path like this – in the case of our test website: Wildlife > Animal > Lions > file-name

By organizing your files this way, you optimize your site for search engines to easily query and understand your content. And as a reward, you get free traffic from search engines.

Like its sister plugin, Real Physical Media is packed with a ton of features.

Check them all out here.

Cost of WordPress Real Media Library PRO and Real Physical Media

A regular perpetual license of WordPress Real Media Library goes for $39, and that of Real Physical Media goes for $24. That’s not cheap, but you get a really good solution for your money.

Where to Buy WordPress Real Media Library PRO and Real Physical Media?

You can buy both plugins at the Envato Market place – the guys behind Themeforest.net.

Here are the links again:  WordPress Real Media Library and Real Physical Media.

Conclusion

At WPVIVID, we love to shine a light on great plugins that make publishing with WordPress amazing. So far, over 15,000 WordPress users share the delight we found using Real Media Library. Give it a try and let us know how it goes!

Still, in doubt, you can try it out without installing it on your website here. Or you can install the free version found in the WordPress repo or go pro here.

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Why Use A Top WordPress Cleaner Plugin

Over time, your WordPress database will start accumulating a wide variety of junk files that you don’t need. This ranges from spammed comments, media files you don’t use anymore, old revisions of your posts, trashed items, and simply broken entries.

As we just said, if your database keeps collecting these junk files, then it will put unnecessary load on your server which will affect your site’s speed and performance. This is where our best WordPress cleaner plugins come into the picture.

Once installed, the plugins will help us detect all the different junk files we have on our database, and then delete these files to free up storage space and remove the unnecessary load from our servers.

Now, the reason why we recommend using the best WordPress cleaner plugins is that they use special algorithms to bring to your attention all the junk files being stored on your website. You also get access to detailed control which lets you cherry-pick which files you still want to keep on your system.

So with that being said, let’s get started with our list of the best WordPress cleaner plugins:

Note: Since the plugins use an automatic algorithm to detect and delete “unused files” or “junk files,” you should always create a backup of your database to be on the safe side. That way, if the plugins mistakenly delete any important files, you can just restore back to a working configuration.

Top WordPress Cleaner Plugins

1. WP-Sweep

More Details

Starting off our list of the best WordPress cleaner plugins we have WP-Sweep. It is one of the most popular plugins to help you delete junk files from your WordPress database including revisions, auto drafts, deleted comments, and so on.

The plugin is designed to use proper WordPress delete functions wherever possible instead of using the dedicated MySQL delete queries. You have the option to “sweep” through your different files one category at a time, or even “sweep all” if you want to remove everything.

Features:

• Uses the default WordPress delete functions whenever possible instead of MySQL delete queries.
• Cleans up duplicate files, unused items, auto drafts, deleted comments, and so on.
• Can help you optimize database tables.
• Works with WP-CLI commands.

And much more.

2. WP-Optimize

More Details

WP-Optimize is another one of the most popular and widely used plugins that can help not only clean up your WordPress database but also compresses your images and caches your entire website for optimized performance.

In terms of cleaning up your WordPress database, the plugin can help you remove all unnecessary files, defragment your database tables, optimize your database without any MySQL queries, and so on.

Features:

• Helps you clean your WordPress database as well as optimize images, and cache your website.
• Can detect and remove unnecessary data like trashed files, unapproved comments, pingbacks, trackbacks, and so on.
• Shows database statistics including how much storage space is saved.
• Automatically cleans your database every week.

And much more.

3. Advanced Database Cleaner

More Details

Next up we have Advanced Database Cleaner, a simple and straightforward plugin that helps you find and delete different kinds of unused and unnecessary files from your system. You get a dedicated look at all the junk files before they are deleted so you can unselect files if you find them necessary.

You can schedule the plugin to clean up your database automatically. It can also help you optimize your database tables, repair corrupted files, and much more. A premium version of the plugin is also available which introduces plenty more advanced features into the mix.

Features:

• Can help you detect and delete old revisions, auto drafts, spam comments, pingbacks, trackbacks, orphaned metadata, and so on.
• Comes with a display that gives you a quick view of all the files that you’re going to be deleted.
• Can optimize your database tables.
• Option to create a scheduled cleanup.
• A pro version with plenty more enhanced features.

And much more.

4. Falcon

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Falcon is a simple WordPress plugin that offers tons of features to optimize your website performance, including cleaning up some of your WordPress junk files.

Besides this, some of its notable features include options to disable emojis, prevent embeds, removing JS and CSS query strings, and so on.

Features:

• Can disable unnecessary functions like emojis, self-pings, and embeds to help improve performance.
• Removes query strings for JS and CSS files.
• Can clean up headers.
• Clears up styles from recent comment widgets.

And much more.

5. Optimize Database after Deleting Revision

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Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions WordPress plugin is a one-click solution for cleaning or optimizing your WordPress database. With a single click, the plugin can help you delete unused and unnecessary data from your WordPress database.

Not only that, but you can also use it to optimize your database tables, create logs of your optimizations, schedule each cleanup session, and so on. It also comes with multisite support which is handy for webmasters managing a network of websites.

Features:

• Can help you delete old revisions of your posts and pages, trashed files, spammed comments, unused tags, pingbacks & trackbacks, and so on.
• Optimizes your WordPress database tables.
• Automatically creates a log of all the optimization.
• Create schedules for running cleanups hourly, daily, or weekly, at a specific time.
• Multisite support.

And much more.

6. Database Cleaner and Optimizer (Built for 2022+)

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• One-Click Clean
• Handle DB of unlimited sizes
• Clean WordPress Core (unused meta, comments, drafts, etc, etc, you know the drill!)
• Track your Database Size over time
• Remove unused tables
• Remove unused cron tabs
• Remove unused options
• Optimize tables
• Option to use the WordPress function to delete instead of raw SQL queries (Deep Deletions)
• Allow you to look into the data before removing it
• Skimming of your Post Types

And much more.

7. Asset CleanUp

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Asset CleanUp WordPress plugin is an HTML source code cleaner that will help you to remove unnecessary or unused scripts from your WordPress posts and pages to reduce the loading speed and optimize performance.

Once installed, the plugin will automatically scan your WordPress website and detect all the plugins, scripts, and other assets running on each and every web page. It will then give you the option to select the JS and CSS that are not necessary to load and the plugin will remove those to reduce the unnecessary load.

Features:

• Reduces the number of HTTP requests that are loaded.
• Supports JS and CSS minification and concatenation.
• Helps reduce HTML file size using GZIP compression.
• Automatically removes emojis, dash icons, and comment replies if they are not used.

And much more.

8. Media Cleaner

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And now for the final entry in our list of the best WordPress Cleaner plugins, we have Media Cleaner. As the name implies, the plugin can help you clean your WordPress media library including media files that aren’t used in your website, as well as broken entries.

All files that are listed by the plugin as “not used” will be listed in a dedicated dashboard from where you can delete them. All deleted files are moved to internal trash so you can see if everything is working properly before you permanently delete those files.

Features:

• Helps to clean up unused media files and broken files from your media library.
• All plugin identified unused files show up in a dedicated dashboard from where you get to delete them.
• Deleted files are stored in internal trash awaiting permanent deletion or restore.
• WP-CLI support. (Premium)
• Analyzes the online version of your website to accurately guess which media files you are using. (premium)
• Scans your physical/upload directory and compares it with your media library. (premium)

And much more.

In Conclusion

So this was our list of the best WordPress Cleaner plugins. We hope you found the read to be useful and that it helped you in finding a good plugin to clean up your WordPress database.

As you can see, we have included a wide variety of plugins with distinct features and functionalities to help you choose the perfect plugin that meets your current needs. A slow website is a real bother and can hamper your business. However, these plugins will help you clear up your database so that your server isn’t loaded with junk files and broken entries.

That’s all. Hopefully you have found this read helpful. You may also want to learn our step-by-step guide on how to clean up and optimize WordPress database.

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Elementor is a very popular and loved WordPress page builder with more than five million active installations according to its WordPress page.

Although it is loved for its speed, flexibility, features, and ease of use – Elementor doesn’t cover every need of every website owner.

And so mushroomed the space for addon developers.

There are hundreds of Elementor addons in the market today to give a website developer or blogger one or more extra features their creative website craves.

One that we got to play with here at WPvivid is Master Addons for Elementor.

By far Master Addons for Elementor leads the pack of Elementor addons and Extensions with its rich and diverse extensions and addons.

With it, you can build almost any kind of website using Elementor.

You think am kidding, check out these features.

Master Addons for Elementor Features

Exclusive to Master Addons for Elementor you get

• Mega Menu
• Custom CSS
• Domain Checker
• Transforms
• Restrict Content
• Positioning
• Container Extra

The free plan alone is packed with a ton of features am sure you and your website visitors will love.

Animated Headlines, Dual Heading, Image Hover Effects, Advanced Accordion, Tabs, Progressbar, Progress bars, Tooltips, Flip Box, Info Box, Team Members, Team Members Slider, WP Forms, Call to Action, Creative Buttons, Changelog, Creative Links, Blog, News Ticker, Business Hours, Table of Contents, Changelog, Image Hotspots, Image Gallery, Pricing Table

They did not forget forms with elements for Contact Forms 7, Ninja Forms, WP Forms, Caldera Forms, weForms

And Extensions Elements like Particles Background, Animated Gradient Background, Background Slider

70+ Elementor addons are more than enough addons for any website.

Yet according to the developer, they are still adding addons to the plugin. Wow.

To get a feel of it, we took it for a spin, we were spun and wowed.

The things you can do on your website with just the free plan alone are mind-blowing.

Now imagine what you could do with the premium plan.

The Addons That Stand Out

Master Addons for Elementor’s Custom CSS

If you are wondering, Elementor has a custom CSS section, but only with the Pro plan.

Master Addons for Elementor’s Custom CSS gives you the granular power to define the look of each element on your website with its free plan.

With the Custom CSS feature on the free Master Addons, you can target any item on your site with CSS; you can target a whole section, a column, or an individual element like a heading.

Master Addons for Elementor Mega Menu

Select a menu, enable mega menu, and bring life and style to the dull WordPress menu with Master Addons Mega menu for free.

Using the Elementor editor, imagine any kind of navigation menu, and Master Addon’s Mega menu feature lets you build it.

Using features and widgets from WordPress, your theme, Elementor Elements library, and Master Addon elements.

Such a rich palette of tools you can build off-canvas or a full-screen menu, a Hamburger or mega menu, multi-page or one-page navigations that you can fix or toggle, overlay or scroll or just a smart menu.

Master Addons for Elementor Transitions – Pro Feature

Mask, flip, rotate, zoom – whatever you want – Master Addons for Elementor ships with 70 ways to animate content.

Do all this from within the Elementor editor under the advanced area of the element you want to set transitions for.

Master Addons for Elementor – Restrict Content – Pro Feature

When content is exclusive – reserved for certain eyes only – you need a way to ensure that only those eyes see it.

Master Addons for Elementor comes with a cool feature in its premium version – Restrict Content.

Yes, it does exactly that.

Fully customizable restrictions that allow you to restrict access to content by age or a math puzzle or with a password or using WordPress user roles.

Which you can display for visitors on the page or use a popup, except of course the WordPress user roles.

Restrict content by WordPress user roles

Restrict content with a password

Restrict content with age

Define your minimum age to access content, and then set the Age Restrict Type.

If a user meets the minimum age requirement they are shown the content.

You have several ways to verify the age.

A visitor can select their birthday.

Or enter their age to access the restricted content

Or enter their age to access the restricted content

Or confirm that they meet the age requirements to access the restricted content

Restrict content with a Math Captcha

When you don’t have age-appropriate content, but just content that you want to ensure it’s for humans then use Master Addons’ math captcha.

A user has to solve a math challenge of additions, subtractions, or multiplications before accessing restricted content.

Master Addons for Elementor – Pre-Built Template Library

It ships with a pre-built template library of landing pages and content sections for a post or page.

If you are starting from scratch, you get 6 ready pages.

Click the one you like, to preview or import to your page or post.

These pre-built pages feature a seductive modern and sleek design that visitors will love. Yet in their beauty, they are blazing fast, much faster than most premium templates in the market.

Besides the ready pages, you get a plethora of Content Sections for your inner pages.

You get a bunch of sections for About Us, FAQs, Services, Team Members and a Hero section

Just like the pages, click the one you like, to preview or import to your page or post.

Master Addons for Elementor – Image Hover Effects

Did someone ever tell you that you look like a Layla or a Milo? Well, Master Addons for Elementor comes with 30 hover effects with a personality.

You can spruce your images with a Goliath effect, a Romeo effect, or a Sadie effect.

You can add a title and description to an image and control the title and description position with padding and margin.

If you rather not, pick an effect that has the title and description style and position you like.

Definitely, no more boring images on your pages or posts with these personality image effects.

Hover over an image and see the image and or text slide, jump, zoom, pop – adding life to images.

Click an image to go to an external URL with the external link setting.

With the border radius feature, style your image just the way you like it.

Another cool trick in up the sleeves of the Image hover effects of Master addons for Elementor is ability to popup something when someone clicks an image.

You can popup a message, a saved section, a saved widget, an image or a whole page.

You can do a lot more with images, or shall we say, images can do a lot more than add pretty to your site.

How Much Master Addons for Elementor Costs?

You can do a lot with the free plan, but if you want to do a lot more, you go premium.

The annual plans are priced at $ 19, $ 39, $ 129 for Personal, Business and Developer plans respectively.

While the lifetime plans go for $ 39, $ 129, $ 199 for Personal, Business, and Developer plans respectively.

If you are a developer or freelancer you don’t need to be an accountant to know that lifetime annual plans have the best return on investment.

Even the personal plan, an extra $20, ensures you get lifetime support and updates.

With the ever-changing technology, you will need the updates a few years down the road.

In the unlikely chance that you are not satisfied with Master Addons for Elementor, you get your money back within 30 days of purchase – how’s that for peace of mind.

Take it for a spin with a 14 days Free Trial.

How to Activate Master Addons for Elementor Free Trial?

First, install the plugin.

In the Add plugin section of your website Search for Master Addons for Elementor

You should see Master Addons for Elementor – click the Install Now button.

After you install it, click the Activate button.

Once you activate the plugin you are taken to a screen like this one. Now click the Allow & Continue button.

When you click it, it will show activating like this image.

Your Master Addons submenu should have Account.

If you don’t see Account, then you clicked Skip in the previous screen.

To fix that, go to your installed plugins and click Opt In under Master Addons for Elementor.

You are taken to the screen where you should now click Allow & Continue.

The catch is you are allowing the developer to track the usage of the plugin on your website.

When you are done with that, click Account from the Master Addons menu, and then click the Free Trial tab.

Click the START MY FREE 14 DAYS green button

You should now see a notice like this. Follow the instructions on how to get the latest personal version.

When you are done with that, you will have access to all the premium features of Master Addons for Elementor for the next 14 days.

Master Addons for Elementor pro features

• Total 80+ Widgets & Growing
• Osaka Pro Theme
• 50+ Ready-made Pages
• 100+ Ready-made Blocks
• 10+ Header & Footer Blocks

Wrap Up

I had fun building some cool stuff with Master Addons for Elementor.

I hope you too will. Give it a try.

Enhance the appeal of your website with or take Master Addons for Elementor for a spin with a 14 days Free Trial.

You can grab the files from the developer’s website, from the WordPress plugin repo or from within your website.

If you choose to go pro remember you have 30 days to get your money back.

What’s your experience with Master Addons for Elementor? Let us know in the comments below.

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Why Use A WooCommerce Product Slider Plugin

A product slider for your WooCommerce website primarily serves two basic functionalities. Number one, by using a product slider you get to introduce your customers to all the featured products in your store. On top of that, a product slider makes it a lot more intuitive and convenient for your customers to browse through this list of highlighted products.

As such, using the best WooCommerce product slider plugins, you get access to advanced features that help you improve the UI and UX of your store. For example, the sliders come with powerful design and customization options to attract the users’ attention. On top of that, you set the sliders to auto-play and attach navigation controls so that users can easily skim through the list.

With this in mind, we have put together a diverse list of the best WooCommerce product slider plugins with many advanced features. This will help you create an attractive and effective product slider that increases impressions and conversions.

So without further ado, let’s get started:

Top WooCommerce Product Slider Plugins

1. PickPlugins Product Slider for WooCommerce

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Starting off our list of the best WooCommerce Product Slider plugins, we have this one from PickPlugins. It lets you create unlimited sliders to help you showcase your featured products. The plugin gives you complete customization control to play around with the look and feel of your website.

All sliders are mobile-friendly and even support touch-based navigations. You can set the sliders to run on auto-play and even tweak around with the slider speed. All these features are bundled in with the free version of the plugin. A premium version is also available with access to tons more features and over 25 themes to customize the slider.

Features:

• Create unlimited sliders to showcase your WooCommerce products.
• Support for auto-play.
• Complete control over slider speed with three different slider navigation options.
• Tons of customization options to control the colors, text, and so on.
• Responsive sliders with touch support.
• Get access to over 29 ready to use slider themes. (premium)

And much more.

2. Product Slider for WooCommerce

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Product Slider for WooCommerce gives you access to a professional and minimalistic slider to showcase your different products. It comes with dedicated shortcodes and widgets support so you can embed the product slider on your pages, posts, and even sidebar.

The plugin can help you display a large number of products, customize its design, set it to autoplay, control what product information is shown on the slider, and much more. It is also completely mobile friendly and supports touch navigations.

Features:

• Helps create professional and clean product sliders.
• Access 3 predesigned themes.
• Set slider to autoplay and adjust the speed.
• Control whether you want to show the product name, rating, and price.
• Option to set a maximum number of products to display on your slider.
• Completely responsive and mobile-friendly with support for touch navigations.
• Dedicated shortcode generator.
• Widget support.

And much more.

3. WP OnlineSupport Product Slider and Carousel

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Next up we have a product slider plugin from WP OnlineSupport. The plugin can help you create a slideshow/carousel to showcase your featured products and bestsellers to your incoming customers.

The plugin comes with three different shortcodes to help you set up sliders to display products based on category, your best-selling products, and featured products. Using the plugin you can create potentially unlimited sliders and place them anywhere in your pages and posts.

Features:

• Helps you set up unlimited mobile-friendly sliders to display WooCommerce products.
• Option to turn on/off autoplay.
• Adopts the design of your WordPress theme.
• Option to showcase products based on categories, featured products and best sellers.
• Shortcode support.
• Customize sliders by using various parameters supported by the shortcode.

And much more.

4. WPB Product Slider for WooCommerce

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WPB Product Slider for WooCommerce gives you access to two different themes that can set up different styles of slideshows to showcase products based on a particular category, tag, latest products, and featured products.

With shortcode & widget support, you can embed the sliders almost anywhere on your website. Now all these features are available with the free version of the plugin. A pro version is also available with access to plenty of more advanced functionalities.

Features:

• Two different product slider variations.
• Can help you showcase products based on category, featured products, and latest products.
• Control autoplay, slider speed, looping, pagination, and more.
• 6 different design themes. (premium)
• Product slider to showcase products based on various parameters like bestsellers, author ID, attributes, and so on. (premium)
• Supports both shortcodes and widgets.

And much more.

5. WooCommerce Product Carousel, Slider & Grid Ultimate

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As the name implies, WooCommerce Product Carousel, Slider & Grid Ultimate can help you display your products in multiple ways – namely carousels, sliders, and grids. It comes with shortcodes and widgets support with access to a dedicated shortcode generator to help you display your products anywhere on your website.

In terms of functionality, the plugin gives you access to tons of design customization options along with settings that let you control the autoplay, slider speed, navigation and much more. There is also an in-built option to help you resize and crop different product images.

Features:

• Create unlimited carousels, sliders, and grids.
• 3 different themes for your slider, carousel, and grid.
• Advanced setting panel with tons of options.
• Auto-play support with the option to control the slider speed.
• Can help resize and crop images.
• Mobile-friendly with support for touch navigations.
• A pro version is available with more customization settings and options to filter through your product list.

And much more.

6. WooSlider

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WooSlider is the official slider plugin coming from the developers of WooCommerce. It is a premium plugin loaded with tons of options that can not only help you set up slideshows but also include transitions, options to control sliding speeds, different pagination settings, and much more.

The plugin is powered by the popular FlexSlider jQuery slider plugin. Needless to say, it adds plenty more features on top of the plugin to make it more flexible and feature-rich. In fact, the plugin settings panel comes with a comprehensive list of options that lets you control almost every aspect of the slider.

Features:

• Various content types to help you build and manage your sliders.
• Access to various slider overlays and layouts to help you control how you display your content.
• Tons of settings to help you control how your slideshows operate.
• Support for minimal styling & CSS for easy slider customization.
• Built on top of the FlexSlider jQuery slider plugin.

And much more.

7. Twist Product Gallery Slider for WooCommerce

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Twist is a premium product slider plugin for WooCommerce. It is the perfect solution to help you add a carousel to display all your different product images in your product gallery.

It is important to note that the plugin isn’t used to help you highlight featured products. Instead, it helps the users to skim through all the different product images in your gallery, pertaining to a single product.

Features:

• Helps you set up an image slider for Single Product feature Image area.
• Support for lightbox customization.
• Comes with both horizontal and vertical gallery layouts.
• Access to both auto-play and navigation support.
• In-built image zoom functionality.
• Works with YouTube, Vimeo, and self-hosted videos.
• RTL support.

And much more.

8. YITH WooCommerce Product Slider Carousel

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Now for the final entry in our list of the best WooCommerce product slider plugins, we have YITH WooCommerce Product Slider Carousel. You might already know that YITH is a prominent name in the world of WooCommerce and with this plugin, it helps you to set up a slider carousel to shuffle through your different featured products.

You will be able to set up a customizable slider where you can add as many products you want and even configure how many products are displayed at a time. You also get access to granular control over the slider including access to sliding speeds, hover effects, animation effects, and much more.

Features:

• Helps you create a product carousel to showcase your featured products.
• Control what products you want to add to the slider and in what order.
• You can also specify how many products you want to show at a time.
• Option to configure the slider speed as well as put it on an endless loop.
• Support for hover effect. Stops the slider when users hover their mouse over the slider.
• Set an entrance and exit animation for the products.
• Sort products based on name, price, and date.

And much more.

In Conclusion

So these were our picks for the best WooCommerce product slider plugins. We hope you found the read to be useful and that it helped you find the perfect plugin to highlight your featured products.

With that being said, we would like our experienced readers to leave a comment and share which plugins (whether or not mentioned in the list) they used to create product sliders on their websites. Your insights are always welcome and it might even help out your fellow readers with their own project.

You may also want to check out our handpicked list of the Best WooCommerce Product Filter Plugins to help users quickly find products.

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As a website owner, you may not have thought of the relevance of the printing feature for your website; this is not exclusive to you. Look at any theme review, barely any places value to being print-friendly.

Yet as a user, time and again, you want to pull down a page to a piece of paper that you can refer to.

A reader of a food blog finds it a lot more convenient to follow along with a recipe and cooking procedure that is printed out and stuck to the counter table. Maybe that’s why cookbooks haven’t lost their relevance despite the plethora of online sites offering cooking recipes.

Not only cooking guides are useful on paper, even technical guides, especially the very long and detailed ones.

Your website may not fall into any of those categories, but you would also consider your audience. The young and hip may be in love with their screens, but, the old, love the smell of paper. How do I know this? My 68 years old mother does it.

To be honest, its way easier for the eyes to read a 5000-word article on paper than on a tiny LED screen.

For that reason, the older demographic will print whatever they want to read, archive, and probably refer to it later.

It, therefore, does not hurt to make your website print-friendly. With WordPress, it is even a lot easier with the benefits of free plugins.

What a plugin does, is strip a website of the features that are not necessary on paper.

Menus, buttons, sidebars, ads, forms may be useful on the web, but do they have that much value on paper? Not necessarily.

The plugin optimizes the pages and posts ready for printing.

To demonstrate this for you, we shall use Print My Blog – Print, PDF, & eBook Converter WordPress Plugin. It is free, and it works.

Step by Step: How to Make Your WordPress Blog Print Friendly?

Step 1. Install and activate the plugin.

Log in to your WordPress backend.

Go to Plugins >> Add New

Enter in the search box “Print My Blog.”

When the results load, you will see Print My Blog – Print, PDF, & eBook Converter WordPress Plugin

Under it, click Install Now

After a second or two, click Activate to activate the plugin and enable printing on your site.

Step 2. Configure the print settings for your website.

Once installed, go to the Print My Blog Settings on your left menu.

To show the print buttons, Check the checkbox beside, “Show visitors buttons to print posts?”

Then click Customize buttons to show and change the labels to the Print Formats to for your website.

The print formats are Print, PDF, and eBook.

When you’ve done that, click the Save Settings button at the bottom of the screen.

Now, visit any of your posts to view the buttons and test the print functionality.

And there you are, the print feature now enabled on your website.

A clean and optimized page is now ready for your reader to print.

Conclusion

Converting a rich web page or post to a clean print-friendly page is easily achieved with a WordPress plugin. Install, activate, and customize it to your liking – then the plugin will do all the work.

Print My Blog – Print, PDF, & eBook Converter WordPress Plugin is awesome, but, as I mentioned earlier, there are several more alternative plugins. Here some of the other popular plugins you can use to make WordPress print-friendly.

WP-Print is a simple yet powerful plugin for making a WordPress website print-friendly. The only caveat is that you will need to modify your theme files to get it working. Not attractive to code shy individuals. But, for the code junkies or enthusiasts, this works. Only remember to keep a backup of your website and use a child theme for your safety.

Using the [print-me] shortcode, Print-o-Matic is yet another powerful WordPress plugin that allows users to make their WordPress websites printer-friendly.

Print, PDF, Email by PrintFriendly uses the PrintFriendly service to clean and format WordPress pages for print. It features a print preview, edit before printing, and print or save as pdf.

Finally, you have Print Post and Page plugin. This plugin automatically adds a print icon to your content. You can go to the post and pages individually to remove the icon.

That’s it! Hopefully you have found this read helpful. You may also want to learn how to create a download page in WordPress to allow users to download files.

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WordPress by default will print a page or post title entered when creating the page or post to the live page or post (sounds like a tongue twister).

But, that’s not what you may want in certain scenarios.

For instance, on a homepage or on a landing or squeeze page.

The reason as to why one wouldn’t want a title on pages of this kind are varied. From plain aesthetics – as in visual appeal – of the title, relevance of a title to a page, and more.

So, you may ask, while creating those pages, why not just leave the title field empty after all.

Well, that’s one way to hide page titles in WordPress. But, that’s the wrong way.

Not only is this bad for SEO purposes, it is also terrible when you have dozens of posts without titles.

How would you find them?

So, there has to be a better way you can achieve pages and posts without titles without wreaking your SEO and your convenience.

So, instead of leaving the title field blank. Fill it. Then leverage the strength of the content management system you are using. Use a plugin.

Before I show you how to easily hide a page title with a plugin, you may find that you can already do it with your theme.

How to Easily Hide A Page or Post Title with Your Theme

Most modern themes come with the flexibility and feature to hide page titles in WordPress.

Sitewide, the setting can be found in the theme details.

On individual pages or posts scroll down to the bottom of the page or post and you should see the place where you can hide your post or page title.

Here is an example.

If your theme does not afford you this luxury, no worries, there are plugins you can use to hide page and post titles in WordPress.

How to Easily Hide A Page or Post Title with A Plugin

Hide Page And Post Title WordPress plugin, is a free plugin that you can use on your website.

Hide title or hide page and post title plugin, as it says in its name, provides functionality to hide the page and post title.

It does just one thing, it provides one the means hide the title of particular page or post or custom post type.

Here is what you need to do to use the plugin to hide page and post titles on your website.

Install and activate the plugin

Login to your WordPress backend.

Go to Plugins >> Add New

Enter in the search box “Hide Page And Post Title”

When the results load, you will see Hide Page And Post Title

Under it, click Install Now

After a second or two, click Activate, to activate the plugin.

Hide a title on a post and a page

Once the Hide Page And Post Title plugin is installed, you will need to edit the page or post whose title you want to hide.

On the right pane of the edit screen under the Document Tab, scroll down to the Hide Page and Post Title section and then click to tick the checkbox beside Hide the title.

Make sure you update or publish your post.

So here is what we are trying to achieve.

First, the post with a title.

Second, a post without the title.

That’s it.

Conclusion

With a plugin like Hide Page And Post Title you can still hide your page titles without risking the fury of search engines while saving you time looking for a page buried in a paginated heap of untitled pages.

And you can do this quite easily.

I should also mention, that those that are techy, or curious, can also hide page titles in WordPress with CSS.

Ideally, needs to find the CSS class for the title and then with the display property hide the title.

For instance, if the title class for your site is main-title_primary then you will need to add something like this to your customizer or CSS.

.main-title_primary {

display: none;

}

If you opt to go this route, it goes without mention;

First, backup your data before tinkering with your theme files. WPvivid Backup Plugin is the only free all-in-one backup, restore and migration WordPress website. Give it a try.

Second, consider using a child theme for any modifications to a theme. Any changes you make the a theme are over written when an update is applied to the theme. To avoid the inconvenience of having to rewrite your code every time you update your theme, why not just create a child theme and make your changes there.

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All content in WordPress is by default tagged with the published and draft only. These work, for most bloggers and website owners never think of any other status and would never imagine a need for anything more.

Work with a large and diversified team of content creators: writers and editors, and you will find value in a clear way of tagging with custom statuses your creation processes tracking progress across the whole team.

You want to know when a post is at the ideation stage, assigned to a writer, prewriting, research, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading.

Ideally, you think of the stages in your writing process. Now assign a custom status to each one of these stages.

We shall enlist the help of a plugin to create custom post statuses in WordPress.

For this article, we will use, PublishPress

PublishPress helps you plan and publish content with WordPress. It features a content calendar, notification, and custom statuses – which we are interested in.

Step by Step: How to Create Custom Post Statuses in WordPress

Step1. Install and activate the plugin

Log in to your WordPress backend.

Go to Plugins >> Add New

Enter in the search box “PublishPress.”

When the results load, you will see PublishPress Content Calendar and Notifications.

Under it, click Install Now.

After a second or two, click Activate to activate the plugin.

Step2. Create custom statuses

Once installed, go to the PublishPress Settings on your left menu.

From there, go to the Statuses tab.

The plugin comes with some custom statuses already created. These include:

• Pitch– Idea proposed, waiting for acceptance.
• Assigned– Post idea assigned to a writer.
• In Progress– The writer is working on the post.
• Draft– Post is a draft, not ready for review or publication.
• Pending Review– Post needs to be reviewed by an editor.
• Published
• Privately Published

If you want more custom statuses than the ones that come with the plugin, then create your own.

Still, under the Statuses tab, click Add New.

Now provide your custom status a name and description.

If you wish, you can add a color and an icon to it.

When you’ve done that, click the Add New Status button at the bottom of the screen.

Step3. Add custom statuses to a page

On a new post or page, on the right pane under the Document tab, go to the Post Status and set your custom status.

Once you select a custom status, you will see on the bar with the publish button on top of the page, a link with Save as “Custom Post Type.”  You can see mine is Save as Pitch because I selected the Pitch content type.

Note that you can only set custom statuses on content that is not published.

The assumption is that published content is past the work-in-progress stages of content creation.

To, therefore, add a custom status to a post or page, you will need to unpublish the content first, and then edit it to select a custom status for it.

Your posts or pages page will now list all your content with all the statuses. You can manage your posts from there based on statuses as you would if you wanted to view or manage only posts that are drafts or published – the default statuses that come with WordPress.

Conclusion

I hope PublishPress works for you. Creating custom post statuses is easy and straightforward, and with it comes a bonus of a content calendar.

Talking of bonuses, another great plugin you can experiment is Edit Flow.

It has the custom statuses feature we are looking for to define the key stages of your workflow.

In addition to that, like PublishPress, it comes with a convenient content calendar and notifications.

It then goes beyond that to give your team a private threaded editorial comments feature for discussion between editors and writers.

It organizes these editors and writers – users – into user groups organized by function or department.

And a really nice feature for bigger publishes is the story budget. Wouldn’t it be nice to keep track of your content creation budget within WordPress?

That’s it! Hopefully you have found this read helpful. You may also want to learn how to display last updated date for your WordPress posts.

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